Newspaper-file



(No Model.)

W. S. EDWARDS. NEWSPAPER FILE.

No. 489,074. Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

Unirse arent trice.,

WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDVARDS, OF CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

NEWSPAPER-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,074, dated January 3, 1893.

Application filed September 2 6, 1892. Serial No. 446,928. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SEYMOUR ED- WARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Files; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of newspaper files wherein a folio sheet is tiled by placing it astraddle of the iile stick, and its object is to enable the file stick and file of newspapers to be folded backward for the ease and convenience of a reader who desires to be seated while perusing the tile.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters represent like parts, Figure I is a perspective of the file; Fig. II, a side eleva-- tion of the hinged end of a section of the tile; Fig. III, a top plan of said hinged end 5 Fig. IV, a side elevation, with part broken away, showing in dotted lines one section of the file folded back, and Fig. V a top View of two adjacent hinged ends of sections of the file, showing the pair of hinges in co-operative position.

A is a newspaper tile, made in two or more sections according to its length, the section joints being indicated by the letter b, as shown in the first and fifth figures. The sections are united by hinges, a, fitted to the ends of sections of the file stick. The hinges are peripherical in that part projected from the section end, as shown by the letter h, and as the peripheral line comes quite flush with the top face, C, of the iile stick, it follows that when the tile is bent backward, opening one of the joints l), the opening presents no sharp corners to tear the fabric of the paper as the sections turn upon the pintle, 7c, of the hinges.

Though the file is designed to fold backward by sections, it must not fold forward, but when rested by its shoulders, d, upon whatever brackets or projections are to support it when not in the hands of a reader, it

must be rigid throughout its length. To this end, each hinge has a recess, t', and a stud, g, on its inner face, and when the inner faces of two hinges are brought together and the pair are pivoted by fastening the pintle in the orifices f of the hinges, it follows that in folding or unfolding the file the stud of each hinge will traverse the recess of the other till, when the file stick is straightened out, the studs come together and the unfolding stick cannot fold forward. This hinge lookin g construction is so well known as to require no further explanation.

The file stick has four faces. The crease of the folio sheet is laid along the face E; the front page passing over the face C, with top of page toward the upper end of the stick, as the same is postured in Fig. I of the drawings. An elastic binder, Gr, bears tautly along the face C of the stick and outside the front page of the exterior sheet, and holds the filed sheets securely thereon. As a matter of mechanical finish I have preferred to countersink the ends of the binder in the stick, using hooks or rings, II, to secure the ends, and placing those hooks or rings in the recesses e of the stick. As a further matter of mechanical finish I have indicated a push button, n, working in a slot, fm, as the preferred means of detaching the binder at one end when newspapers are to be filed. By taking the file in the left hand, with the page of reading matter right end up, a reader can fold back the iile and the filed sheets at any of the joints b and so reduce the length of the file to a convenient and comfortable dimension. The elastic binder will stretch as the joints open, and keep the sheets in place upon the file. If the page to be read is an inside page, the leaves outside of it may be turned back over the face E and along the face D, before the tile stick is folded backward.

I claim as follows:

The combination in a newspaper file of the file stick divided into sections; the peripheral hinges, fitted to the ends of the sections of said stick, flush with the upper face of the tile, and having each on its inner face the recess and stud to correspond with a, like recess In testimony whereof I afx my signature in and stud on the inner face of its adjacent presence of two Witnesses. hinge, and the elastic binder, stretching along f l ,l l R, EDWA DS. the top face of the file stlek and suitably sel UNAM SEYJOU R cured at or near the extremities thereof; all Witnesses:

constructed as and for the purposes herein WM. S. SUMMERS,

described. MURRAY BRIGGs. 

